Former Bill Clinton Economic Adviser Laura Tyson comments on the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech by Marco Rubio. Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the the ... so that was marker Rubio a Republican senator from Florida giving the Republican spot response to the president stated the Union ... in many ways I think he laid out what he described as a stark choice on economic policy in particular talk about ... the prisoners designers use tax increases as part of a formula for continued to attack the deficit said that won't work ... said it's a formula for taxi ... hampering the middle class that deficit reduction has come in other ways ... principally through economic growth ... I think in some other areas he tried to narrow the distance between Republicans and Democrats critically on immigration reform the subject of these worked on ... heavily ... aam to talk about this beach in response to this beach a little bit ... for the regatta be ... returning to reshape and a presence of the story and he joins us ... from so I think before that happens ... the burden tech Laura Tyson who is a threat to the White House Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton White House floor ... I think you're joining us by phone ... yes I am pay thanks for coming ... let me ... ask you do respond to the response first of all of Senator Rubio tried to ... lay out what he said was a pretty stark choice of economic policy with your reaction to ... my reaction but I do think carefully ... I have to be that the president did not make ... I propose a ... major new spending program it very clear to say that every nation to keep her post with actually ... I've not going to be defending him and me off the proposed that the very beginning ... of working with Congress on from reform to Medicare ... to achieve the kind of fitting that the company Bowles Commission ... had proposed ... he proposed ... perform comprehensive tax reform which was also something that the content ... the proposal as it with ... you before that and had great revenue growth ... I've really felt that the glitter pot was ... containing a picture of the caricature of ... a good ending president ... like to spend a lot of money and effort to not what President Obama would ... see it that it wouldn't get better to have her on ... that with a spot that the actual beachs ... in Own breads is an example of ... the conversation continued the one that people talking past each other in Washington which has seen plenty of the last few years did you hear anything tonight that suggests maybe that shifted ... I've ... that they are compared it to a rare thing to be the shifting and I think that really is the leader of ... the audience that I've that you can keep that in the area of immigration ... things have shifted and I think that we will be an ally ... I've that the president of other top Council and one of them entered into it that that ... that that they can talk about was the